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20: Top 3 Animated Films
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Everyone loves a good animated film. Some of us even love not-so-good animated films. Luckily, our childhood best friend Mackenzie is with us to set the record straight on ALL animated films, because she's pretty much seen every single one in existence. See what films made her long list below!
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Leaving the Nest and Introductions
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All right, thanks. Yeah, we're finally leaving the nest. Look at us.
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Thanks dad. No, you're still needed. You're still needed for sure. Oh my God. Grayson for sure. We're like 20 minutes behind schedule. All right. Bye. It's cause he took the headphones. Yeah. That's really his fault. Yeah. He wanted to make sure that this didn't go too smoothly without him. He was saying the other day, he was like, Mary is going to be able to do this without me. And I was like, no, find out.
00:00:41
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Welcome to my top everything today. We're three best friends and today we have a guest star. Her name is Kara. Hello, it's me, the third best friend. Yeah, it's actually the MMM show now. I'm Marion. I'm Mara. I'm Kara. No, I'm Mackenzie. Yes. Kara, you have always been just a placeholder for me.
00:01:12
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The third M. All right, we'll see how you do in the standards. There's even three points in an M, just like three best friends. Yeah, wow. There are five points in an M. Points. I guess, yeah, where the two lines meet. You're right. Points. Point for you. There you go. Yeah, point for Mackenzie. Point for Mackenzie. For understanding points.
Childhood Memories and Allergies
00:01:31
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I'm the guest. I made the art for this show.
00:01:35
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Yeah. Yes. Hype yourself. Tell the people. Mack is our high school friend who made the podcast art. What? We were in middle school for us. Middle school. Oh, well, we weren't friends in middle school. Wait, well, no, I did have a sleepover in your backyard in the tent. You and Savita played Tila Tequila. That was ninth grade for sure. OK, thank God. Yeah. But Kara and I were best friends in sixth grade, so. Yeah.
00:02:04
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Okay, I learned I was allergic at your house. Allergic to what? Sorry, allergic to cats. Okay. I just thought that was obvious. I was allergic to everything. Many a childhood friend exploded of cat allergies in my house. Yeah. Yeah. It's really good. That's, you know, it's kind of like a rite of passage. You know, you've got to be that person for a lot of people.
Animated Films and Friendship
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Yeah, so we are four childhood best friends who are going to discuss our top three animated films today. So unless there are any updates.
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Oh, my God. OK, I didn't look the one for this. God fucking damn it. Also, Mari, you can do like episodes that weren't just right before this one. You know what I'm saying? Like, like you could talk about any of the different merges again. Think about you every time I drive home.
00:03:07
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And I still get comments about zipper merges in my, say it with me, DMs. So what's your opinion on zipper merges? Listen, I'm not going to get into this with you guys. I couldn't even get through that episode. I stopped listening. Wow. It was infuriating. I will say my update is that Marion was the first person who ever
00:03:35
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just told me that they were going to poop. I never had a friend who announced that they were going to poop. And after like a play rehearsal or maybe before, I can't remember, I went to the bathroom with you and you said, come on, I have to poop.
00:03:57
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And then I stood in the bathroom while you pooped, which was also a first for me. It was shocking. Wow. Really, really opened your horizons in that moment. Nice. Now we've talked about Marion's pooping, my DMs.
00:04:14
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And what are we missing here? I can't remember what. Maybe like Karen needs to talk about how to search for something on the Internet. What's a hashtag? What's a hashtag? I know what a hashtag is. All right. Well, my dad finally got a cell phone for the first time and he went bold. He got an iPhone and I'm concerned for
00:04:36
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I'm concerned. Has he texted you yet? No, he hasn't texted me yet. He did accidentally call me last night. Classic. My grandpa does that to my mom. My mom resisted texting for several years, maybe a good five years. And then she finally was like, okay, teach me how to text. And then she... And then she asked you to teach her how to doggy?
00:05:01
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Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking. Yeah, we we duggied while we were texting. But she like she uses like early 2000s chat speak all the time. Like she's doing the lowercase use the to the B. I'm like, what is this?
00:05:19
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For a really long time, my mom would leave ellipses at the end of everything. So I thought she was mad at me all the time.
Texting Habits Across Generations
00:05:27
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Fair. She'd be like, hello, dot, dot, dot. She'd be like, are you coming to dinner? Dot, dot, dot. Oh, my God. Not with that tension. Right. And so then I was like, Mom, what are you doing? And she was like, we're not done with the conversation. I'm like giving you a.
00:05:45
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That's such a sweet reason, though. It was nice. She stopped doing that, though, because I was like, I think you're mad at me. Yeah. This is not how millennials talk. Get with it.
00:05:55
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I mean, my mom is Gen X though, so she's pretty with it. That's true. My supervisor is also on the Gen X millennial cusp, and he ends everything he texts with a period, just a solitary period, which I would say... A period? Yes. It's even worse than an ellipse. It sounds so bad all the time. He'll be like, no problem, period. We had to sit him down and have an intervention about
00:06:22
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I know what, my mom does that too and I never noticed. Really? Yeah. Because that really gets me, gets my heart rate up when somebody does that. I mean, she's also a lady, so she uses a lot of exclamation points. That's okay. How's she in the emoji game? That's the real question. No emojis.
00:06:44
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Whoa. My mom will send me the little bitmojis. Oh my God. The winky smiley face. That's cute. No, it's the like crazy eye. Oh yeah. The one now. Yeah. What's your, what's your, um, your mom knows how to use bitmoji. Yeah. She'll send me a little, it'll just be her animated head that she made and it'll just have different reactions. Uh,
00:07:13
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I don't know how she figured that one out, who taught her, but I'm here for it. Those and all of her selfies because those are also gifts. Let's get started because there's four of us. So whoa. Yeah. I
Animated Film Favorites
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know I'm coming in with the energy. I want to I want to guess your guys's picks. Guess it at the end or the beginning. I want to guess it first. OK. Yeah. Because otherwise we could say it. Yeah. Before she guesses. You can't change your answer.
00:07:43
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Well. You've obviously never been in our podcast recordings. Trust me, we have never, never, ever, ever changed our answer after giving a 10 minute spiel about something that was recorded on the podcast, then done another 10 minutes spiel and cut out the first and replaced it with a substitute. We've never done that. No, don't do that. I'll be really upset. Anyway, so starting with Mara.
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I really think that it's really just like Beauty and the Beast probably. Well how? But if not some like sexy angry man smut then it's probably like Prince of Egypt, right?
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The most religious children. Yeah. The thing is that Mara didn't have cable growing up. So it begs the question, like, what were her parents letting her watch? Like, what was she? Yes. Not a lot. I think she was relegated to VHS as my guess. Yeah, but VHS is of like, what?
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I feel like veggie tails, I'm sure. Yeah. Maybe some veggie tails are in here. Maybe some one-on-one Dalmatians. Nope. I know veggie tails. Do you know where your hairbrush is? Um, no, but I know everyone has a water buffalo. Okay. All right. Cool.
00:09:08
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And I don't, does he find his hairbrush at the end of the song? Yeah, the peach has it, because the peach has hair. Oh. I saw it. I think I am the guest this week. My plan is working. I think, my guess is Mara has 101 Dalmatians and then a Miyazaki film. Miyazaki, baby? Yeah. Did I say it wrong, Miyazaki? I don't know, maybe we're both saying it wrong.
00:09:36
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My no, I don't know. All right. Well, you'll find out. What about Kara? I think that Kara's is like Fern Gully. I've never seen that actually. Fern Gully is like
00:09:51
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an environmental film. The villain is climate change. You would love it. I'm actually really shocked that you've never seen it. And then I think Fox and the Hound or Spirit because you are such a horse girl and maybe you still are. I don't know.
00:10:14
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I have also never seen Spirit, funnily enough. That's disgusting. You would love it. The only reason that Kara has seen Fox and the Hound is because when we were living together, I found out that both Mara and Kara had never seen. I was there? Yes. I haven't seen it in a really long time. I couldn't get through it as a kid. It made me too sad. Yeah, me too. Me too. It's really upsetting. So I showed it to them, didn't give them any forward about what it was going to be. And it was delightful to watch Kara sob for about 30 minutes of it. That is.
00:10:44
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You also made me watch Schindler's List and then left me in the middle of it. I think if that affected somebody more negatively, it was myself because I had to go to work and I was unresolved. We didn't get that beautiful cathartic moment at the end for me. I just had to leave after a bunch of people got gassed. So I really think that I'm the one who suffered more.
00:11:04
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Um, I also suffered because I came home to my two roommates watching Schindler's List on the couch. And I was like, well, this isn't a movie I can just sit down and watch. I guess I'll be in my room. Um... You guys can't do titty bongos while you watch that? Titty bone? Um, we did not play titty bongos. We were respectful. Yeah. What do you think Marion's List is? Okay, Marion's really hard for me personally, um, because I don't understand your taste in...
00:11:34
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things. Your two favorite movies are like The Mummy and While You Were Sleeping. And so like what the fuck is that? So the only thing I could really think of was Anastasia because it's like you've got Rasputin, right? Yeah. But then you've also got like A Girl With Memory Laws. Yeah. So you've already got one of those in your life too. So
00:11:57
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Kara that was really all I had for you. That's a really good one She's not on my list, but only because she was almost on my list, but Anastasia really really I've thought about this because I feel like we might do it one day but like creepiest childhood scenes I think we've talked about that and it's scary when she's almost going off the boat like during that nightmare dream She's having I I really couldn't watch Anastasia as a child because it's too grim like it was too scary loved it I
00:12:25
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See, that's something that maybe I would pin for you. My guess for you, maybe like Coraline, like I could see you having Coraline in your top three. I tried to watch that on the plane recently and I didn't get through it. That's despicable. Or like Spirited Away. I feel like somebody's going to have Spirited Away on here. That's my guess. Yeah.
00:12:47
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your guests for your next best friends or? Kara, I bet has up on her list. Do you want me to answer? No. Cause Kara loves crying at old people. I don't love it. It is a natural human reaction that we should all do. It's fine. Okay. Let's do our number three. I like to celebrate old people actually. Um, cry. Teach me. Who was first when we, did we have Anna go first last time?
00:13:12
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Yeah, let's have Mackenzie go first. Guest goes first. Okay. Do you start with three or do you start with number three? Number three for me is Pocahontas, which is a problematic fave. But I was obsessed with Pocahontas as a child. I had a lot of Pocahontas dresses.
00:13:31
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I had the Pocahontas Barbie that had the tattoo that changed colors in warm water And the John Smith one that had the eagle tattoo that also changed colors in warm water It would be an eagle and while it's it's really problematic as far as being a historical film about Native Americans It has a it has a really nice message Which is
00:13:59
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Nice. Yeah, I mean, it's a beautiful, like, it's a beautiful movie and the songs are really, really good in it. I probably sing Colors of the Wind like once a week. That's so sweet. That's what my life is missing. I was also obsessed with Pocahontas as a child. And I feel like I attribute my obsession with her to
00:14:28
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Like part of why I want to be in the woods. Yeah. I feel like that's why I like am really adamant about trying to learn
Nostalgic Film Debates
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names of like birds and trees because every creature has a name.
00:14:47
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Straight from straight from the song Yeah, I love that I feel like colors of the wind has some of the best lyrics ever like when she says you can own the earth and still all you'll own is earth until I Like that. It's all so good. You own whatever land you land on the earth is just a dead thing. You can claim Yes European
00:15:10
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I rewatched it recently and the whole, I love Pocahontas and I love all of her stuff. The whole Jon Snow, is it Jon Snow? No. That's the other Jon Snow. That would be hilarious if Jon Snow was in there. Jon Smith. Jon Smith. That whole thing, it makes me quite sad. And they like, I don't know.
00:15:33
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I'm team them love because they genuinely love each other, but also I don't know how they love each other in such a short amount of time. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm team Coco. Um, all the way. Like he is so she didn't love Coco. Um, I like him as a person. Maybe somebody that she doesn't love.
00:15:49
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Growing to love him, oh my God, the two of you. I'm just saying. I love Coco Am. It was just never the right time for them. You know, it was never meant to be. It's okay. I'm just saying if you could remake that movie, in my version, she'd end up with Coco Am. Yeah, obviously. Because now I know all the horrible things that actually happened to her with real life John Smith. And so I feel like I would rather
00:16:15
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Have you like take her back to Europe or something? Yeah. We don't talk about Pocahontas to listen. No, I didn't. They did. Yeah. I don't think she was with John Smith. Right. They like took two things and put them together. That Pocahontas. She married John Smith. Real life.
00:16:32
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Real life, she did get taken to Europe by John Smith. Oh, by John Smith, not someone else. Listen, let's not make the same mistakes and tell her story incorrectly, shall we? That's a good point. I'm looking up right now. Love it. Thank you. Really appreciate that.
00:16:53
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She was captured, she was captured and held for ransom by English colonists during hostilities in 1613. Yeah, she was very sure that they gave her like an English name. Yeah, yeah, she was encouraged to convert. Rebecca, you were so close.
00:17:10
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And she married the tobacco planter, John Rolfe. Oh, so close. So no, they took John Smith, who is a real person, and this is why I remembered, they blended them. They weren't, it wasn't a real thing, but she did end up, right, going back to London with a John, so that's it. Right, dunk and don, the retelling of the story in the way that Disney did, it's wrong and whatever, but...
00:17:35
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Does she go with him at the end of Pocahontas? She stays right. She waves at him because he's shot. And so he gets taken off to the boat by his pals. And she goes. I was waving. Yeah, it's audio. Listen, how how old do you think Pocahontas was when she died? She was like 32, 28.
00:18:03
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40. She was 20 or 21. Holy shit. That's. She died in 16, 17, one year after going to England. How old was she when they tried to marry her off?
00:18:20
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In real life, no, she would have been like 18. She got with John Rolfe in like 16, 15, and died in 16, 17. Yeah, who's going second? Mara, since you were closest to Pocahontas' real age, you can go next. What? Because you said 28. Oh, OK, sorry. I was trying to think of how, in real life, my age is closest to hers. No, your guess was closest. I'm the closest. I'm the youngest.
00:18:51
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My number three top animated film is Space Jam. Oh my God. I was obsessed with Tweety Bird as a child. My first email had Tweety Bird in it. How long was your first email?
00:19:17
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This is really dorky of you. The longest amount of characters I could get in there. This is questionable. I hope you realize how questionable this is. I know, I know. Because it's a live action. It's live action animated. OK, listen. With animated elements. No, no, no. You could do a whole category on like Roger Rabbit and Space Jam and like other movies that blend those two things together.
00:19:45
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It is. There's animation front to back. You're a loser for disagreeing with her. I looked up. I fucking, I googled. It is. I googled if people thought this was an animated film. It's for sure animated. I knew you guys. Just like Who Framed Roger Rabbit is animated. I have, I don't know what that movie is at all. I can play for both teams. I think is the, I know.
00:20:11
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I'm going into this knowing that there's real life. But anyway, I'm more upset about Tweety Bird being your favorite. I think there's a negative half point here. Like you get to keep the half point that is animated and the negative half point for the half that's life action. Do you think that's fair? Are you the only one who gives points? Can anyone give points? Everyone can give points. Everyone can give points. Have you listened to the podcast? I've listened to some of the podcasts.
00:20:41
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I'm probably not your biggest fan. Someone else is your biggest fan. Yeah, you haven't even shared our posts and become number two sponsor. That's not true. I have shared it. She has shared it because when I share the art on Insta, she's like, hey, look at my art.
00:21:01
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All right. I did this. Thank you. But this movie was pretty wack. It's crazy shit. It's wack because it's it is just from start to finish. So wild. And I feel like it was one of the first sports movies I liked because of course there is that like series of buddy the dog movies that just played a bunch of sports. And then. Oh, is it Air Bud? Air Bud. It's Air Bud. OK.
00:21:31
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Yeah, then there's Benji that dog he got into that was one of my VHS is Kara Benji Yeah But if you go to the website your third favorite of all the movies because I had to pick a third
00:21:53
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So you liked it because it made you like sports? No. Why do you like it? Why did you like it? I just thought it was hilarious. And the just the concept of fucking aliens coming to Earth looking tiny. What is that? What is that called when you hoodwink somebody? You're like when you tell them. Yeah, they got hustled by a bunch of tiny aliens that then turned big for this evil corporation. And then they Michael.
00:22:21
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Jordan. Nice. Got there. Good job. So proud of you, man. How funny would it have been if she said Michael Jackson? She was so close. Or she might have said Michael B. Jordan. You could see things turning. It was Jackson. I wish it was Michael B. Jordan. Got remake. They already did it. With? Who was in the new one?
00:22:47
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I've seen it. I don't remember. Just name any relevant basketball player that you think. Kobe. Kobe's dead. Kobe's dead. No, I know. But was he dead at the time of filming? I don't know. No, didn't he just die? No, he died in like 20 days. He died a couple years ago.
00:23:07
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Yeah, I feel like that's, when was it remade? When did Space Jam come out? Like a year ago? It was during COVID, yeah. So, but he died right before COVID, so filming. That's not gonna happen. Yeah. It was for sure LeBron James, right? Yes, it was LeBron James, yes. LeBron is pretty funny. He's good. I just think you deserve a full negative point for your explanation, actually.
00:23:33
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Well, I love it. Ooh, I agree. Really? I enjoyed this movie. My favorite line that I would quote all the time from that movie as a child was when Daffy Duck gets hit in the final basketball game, you know, everyone's getting beat up. They're losing. He gets like hit and he's seeing stars or whatever. And he's like,
00:23:55
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Mommy, I don't want to go to school. I want to stay home and bake cookies with you. And I cringe to think about how much I would quote that. I don't even know how I found like space to put that into my daily life, but it was it was a large part of my my lexicon at the time. Wow. Sounds like Marianne liked this movie more than you.
00:24:17
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Yeah, I don't remember that line at all. I had trouble with it because I absolutely hated the part where they're all getting Mike's magic stuff. You know, it's it's just water, but Michael Jordan's labeled it to trick all the poos.
00:24:35
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And he's- Oh, Kara hated that. I have never seen this movie, actually. I'm realizing as you keep talking, I'm like, I think I know the idea because I've seen the cover, but I actually don't think I've seen the movie. Well, they're in this epic battle for Earth or whatever with the aliens. They're losing, it's like halftime or whatever. Michael B. Jordan's like, he puts Mike's magic stuff on his water bottle and tells everyone it's special juice that's going to make them better, but really, they just need to believe in themselves.
00:25:03
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And he passes it around. Everyone's drinking it. And then Newman from Seinfeld, like the guy from Jurassic Park, he's like kind of the butt of a bunch of jokes in it. Yeah. And they are making fun of him for being fat. La la la la la. Like classic, you know, like being that is so funny. And then he and I went very different directions.
00:25:27
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And it finally gets to Newman, and when he tries to get it, there's no more of the magic self-left, and there's nothing. And it turned out it was just piss. Maybe I need to go back with that narrative, because it broke my heart every time. I did not find it funny. It would ruin the movie for me, because that's all I would think about is poor Newman.
Magical Adventures and Literary Influences
00:25:52
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Damn.
00:25:53
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Anyway, I'll go with my number three, unless you have more. I know you have so much to say about Space Jam. If you go to the website, www.spacejam.com, it is still its original website from the 90s. Come on and jam or slam and welcome to the jam. Great song. What's your number three?
00:26:17
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My number three top animated film is Shrek 2. I love Shrek 2. I feel like it's better than the first, I mean first Shrek is amazing and it has some facts about it. First Shrek doesn't hold up as well as Shrek 2 though.
00:26:34
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Shrek 2 is just funnier, more engaging. It's just hitting all the spots. There's a little less gross stuff in Shrek 2 as well. It's not as related to fart jokes and earwax.
00:26:48
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as the first one is. But those are your favorite things. Yeah. So some things about the original Shrek movie, you guys. Nicholas Cage was offered the role of Shrek. God damn. Could you imagine? Would have been very bad. That's not true, though. I actually like Nick Cage. Get out of here. Well, I think it would have been bad. So like quintessential Mike Myers Scottish accent. Just yes. Yeah. He knocked it out of the park. He almost did a Canadian accent for it.
00:27:17
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and then decided on Scottish, thank God. Could you imagine Canadian accent? No. Well, I'm pretty sure that he, everyone knew his Scottish accent because of Austin Powers and him being Fat Bastard.
00:27:31
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Oh, Shrek won the first Academy Award for animated feature. And it beat out Monsters Inc., which I kind of think is a little bit of a tragedy because that's another very good movie. But it also beat out Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.
00:27:49
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It is so upsetting to me that that would even be nominated. Yes, yes. Have you looked at how that looks? Because it looks like dog shit now. Yeah, it is terrible. And the movie's not good. It's not a good movie. That's the first movie I ever saw with my dad. Jimmy Neutron. Then he bought me a Garfield coloring book. Wow, that's a big day. Great day. That was a big day. That's a good day. Could you imagine if Jimmy Neutron had won an Academy Award?
00:28:19
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Like in a travesty that would be for our history. Anyway, Shrek 2 is the highest grossing movie worldwide in 2004. It beat out Spider-Man 2 and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, you guys. Really? That is criminal. What? Just asking for a friend, is the plot of Shrek 2 again? Okay.
00:28:41
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In Shrek 2, Shrek and Fiona, Fiona's parents find out she got married, and they're like, come to the kingdom of Far Far Away, and let's celebrate you getting married to Prince Charming. Oh, is this where the evil fairy godmother Shrek 2 did slap?
00:28:59
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She does a banging karaoke. It's so good accidentally in love funky town like it's just banger after banger the scene where she's singing that and the huge gingerbread man is like coming out. Oh, yeah, and his arms fall off.
00:29:18
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I mean, it's just like, yeah, that Puss in Boots is the first time we see Puss in Boots. Like that movie does not miss at any point in time. It is just like. Also, if you haven't seen Puss in Boots 2, The Last Wish, I also very good almost put that on here because I just love all the death stuff in it. I think we actually talked about it. Both of those were on my long list. Yeah.
00:29:42
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One last fact about Shrek 2, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes, which is basically the most prestigious foreign movie award that you can get. Cannes Film Festival is very big. And Shrek 2 was nominated, which I don't know why that just
00:30:05
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That just tickles me. I love that. For reference, Fahrenheit 9-11 by Michael Moore won the Palme d'Or. So up against stiff competition, you know, it could have been Shrek 2. I wish it had been, honestly. Nobody needs to see Fahrenheit. It's up there with the near misses of Black Panther just being the best film at the Oscars of the year.
00:30:34
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I like this because Shrek's my man, so he's my boo. He's one of those animated characters that I would date. He'll take care of you. And look at him, just not missing.
00:30:54
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just showing what good husband material he is in this movie. So thanks Shrek. Well. Yeah. Honestly, Fiona is being a huge asshole in that movie being like, just just be different from my parents. Just give them a chance, even though they're being racist to you. Yeah. But then but then no, she's just worried that they're because she's also an ogre now and she's worried that they're not going to like be OK. Have you watched it recently? Josh and I watched it last month.
00:31:19
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Really? But then he's the one who's like, oh, I should turn myself into a human. Like she doesn't make him do that. He's like, let me drink this potion and become a human. Yeah, because he's a good husband. Only after he thinks that she's going to leave. She's in his child. He's in her childhood bedroom and she has all this stuff that is like, I can't wait to marry Prince Charming. And Justin Timberlake poster above her bed. Everything is like, my life is going to be perfect when I have my super hot husband and then
00:31:48
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her parents had just berated him and acted like he was the worst person in the world. And so he was like, I guess I do have to change for my lovely wife. But part of that was that Fiona's dad has had an agreement with the fairy godmother that Fiona and Prince Charming were betrothed. Yeah, because she's blackmailing him. Yeah.
00:32:14
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I guess I have to rewatch this movie. It's a great movie. There's a lot going on. I don't remember. This clearly didn't have as much impact on my life. It's about to. All right. Let's go on to our number two. What's your goal?
00:32:36
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The best friend me. I don't have a lot to say about movies. Movies are not my topic as we now know. All right. My number three is the 1963 film, The Sword in the Stone. Jesus Christ. So close to my long list also. I feel like that is so close actually to the vibe of Ferngoli that I'm going to give McKinsey a point right now for
00:33:01
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That is like so funny. It's a good movie. Cause that like, um, the like hag, which I just like, she's so good. Just like her like bouncy, fluffy, songy life. Do you remember there's a part where she pulls apart, she has this like hair and she's flipping into different, like she's getting smaller, bigger, whatever. She pulls apart her hair and it's like a pig face. And I just was obsessed with that scene. I just remember like,
00:33:27
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loving the fact that she's just like evil, but in such a good fucking way. And then Merlin, I think I was obsessed a little with magic. Because if you remember Mackenzie, like T-witches, I was also obsessed with that in middle school. You gave me that book and I read it. Karen and I have had many arguments about witches versus T-witches. Oh my God. I hate that. Kara says T-witches. It's killer. It's T-witches. It's T-witches. Everyone thinks it's T-witches except for you. Because I'm right.
00:33:56
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It's T, which anyway, anyway, we're not even talking about animated. So the stone has Archimedes, who is this like amazing kind of like a Jafar's parrot. You know, he plays he's like the companion animal. Arthur is such a lovable character. He's just this little orphaned kid and he becomes this like awesome person because he gets like changed into a squirrel at one point. And he you know, he just like he does all this awesome stuff. Like as a kid, I was like this is my life because he like
00:34:26
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There's like a girl squirrel who's like, please fuck me. And he's like, what? Is this up there? I don't know. This film, I've never heard of her. Listen, I don't know if it will hold up in my mouth. I've heard of all of these, and I'm really upset with you guys. I guess this is why I'm the guest. Yeah, this is your arena. We needed you here. Yeah. I know you have to remember Sword in the Stone.
00:34:55
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Yeah, that is. I think it's a swan princess. That's what it's you talking about the plot. It's giving the swan princess for me. I can see that. Do you guys not know that this princess and she has turned into a swan. I'm just not sure that I understand the correlation. It's like medieval as well. That's the correlation. And there's magic like there's transformation. I get I get the through line.
00:35:25
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Shall we go to our number twos? Yes. We can do honorable mentions at the end, I think. Okay, perfect. My number two is Spirited Away. Nice. So I guess point for you for knowing that that was one of them. I gotta up my game.
00:35:42
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I really love Spirited Away. I am going to give an honorable mention right now, which is to Ponyo, because that was the first Miyazaki movie that I had ever seen, or the studio Ghibli. Can I say something about this crap honorable mention that you've just given?
00:35:57
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It's a sentimental honorable mention. Tanyo is also the first that I saw in theaters, which is crazy. I saw it with Lucas. That makes total sense. Yeah, because he was into Miyazaki. And we both hated it. It was so boring. There's a sexy giant woman.
00:36:16
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I don't think that's enough. Little Mermaid also has a sexy giant woman, but there's more going on. She can just reach out with me with her tentacles. That is an unhinged take, Marianne. Ponyo is easily better than the Little Mermaid. Whoa, this is not true. I don't know that you find anybody who's seen both of those movies that would agree with you. Well, you're going to have to keep looking because Karen and I have not
00:36:43
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You guys haven't seen Panyo? No, I've seen Howl's Moving Castle. Guess what? You can come over and watch Panyo. I don't know if you would care for it. Don't waste your
Emotional Animated Classics
00:36:51
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life. It's a little fish baby. And she gets swept on to land during a tsunami. Oh my god. And then a little boy feeds her ramen, and it has ham in it. And she goes, ham! And then he takes her back to her family.
00:37:09
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You're not selling this for me. It's a beautiful film. Anyway, that's my honorable mention. That got me into anime in general because I really thought that I didn't like it because of all of the weebs at our high school. They made me think that anime was for weirdos. That's really unkind. But in the same sense, it's not because one of those weebs like
00:37:38
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loaned me an anime book and was like way too sexually charged. And I was like, this is weird for me. So they gave you a hentai book. I don't know. No, that's nice. But Spirited Away is an excellent movie and I've watched it like a million times. It is very good.
00:38:02
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Do you have anything to say about it? Because my number two is also a Miyazaki, so maybe we should...
00:38:11
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have a little argument here over which one is better. Yeah, I have seen Spirit Away. It is cute. It's got the hag. This is the one you guys, in the very first episode, I said that my number two cartoon I would date is No Face from Spirit Away. That is so creepy. Yeah, that's a weird take there. Thank you. Thank you. All of mine were very weird takes. They were all like pseudo villains. I guess if you're into simps, then.
00:38:42
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He be simpin'. I actually am into- He's just ready to please. The food in this movie was good. Yeah. And the bathhouse, like I just want to be one of those giant chicks in the bath. Yeah, okay. I'm here.
00:38:59
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So what is yours? How's Moving Castle? It is. How's Moving Castle was on my shortlist. I've seen that one. It's a good one. I just vibe more with Spirited Away. I don't know if the themes resonate as much for me with Howl's Moving Castle.
00:39:23
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Crybaby. What? He does a dramatic, really funny. He's so dramatic. He is Christian Bale, by the way, guys. That's who it is. But anyway, it's not connected to my story.
00:39:39
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He like, no, like the- Christian Bale is also Teddy in Little Women 90s version, okay? We can all name a movie Christian Bale has been in. With Kim Cara? Cara? No, I don't even know who he is. Cara, Batman, he was Batman. Batman, he was the main character.
00:40:08
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Anyway, the themes of Howl's Moving Castle is all about like, he is being destroyed by war, like every time he participates. He's such a crybaby, he won't just go do his job and help.
00:40:23
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He's running away from his problems. But the point is is that every time he goes out at night to be a weapon of war, he loses a bit of himself and he can't remember his own humanity and who he really is. And that's why he always comes back half monster, half creature. And Sophie is the only person who can like return him back to his humanity.
00:40:44
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I don't remember that that's what he was going out and doing at night. Can you fact check yourself? Yes. Oh, yes. I mean, I've already looked it up because I was like, I wanted to make sure. But yes, he there's a war going on between two kingdoms. Yeah, I know that part. And how is going out and fighting on both sides? OK. Do he's like helping with the war and he doesn't want to. But he's beholden to the the lady, madam, whatever.
00:41:11
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Yeah, the other big fat lady. Yeah. We love a witchy, chunky mommy. Yes. And a Lucifer. Lucifer? Nope, a Calcifer, baby. Calcifer. We love a Calcifer. Really crystal. Yeah, a Calcifer is great. Calcifer is crystal. What I liked about it
00:41:30
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Is like one of the things that I like besides like all the anti-war stuff Was I mean i'm also anti-war don't worry Yeah, it's kind of weird that you don't connect with that thing. That's really fucked up
00:41:44
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One of the things I really like about it is I think it's a very unique film and the fact that so the for those of you who haven't seen it which it looks like Kara and then Mara might not remember but the main character very very early on in the film gets turned into an old woman and like an ugly old woman and It's like role of you
00:42:06
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But like what I guess we know how Marian feels about old ladies negative one point. But like what's really cool about it is that he like shows a bunch of her strengths like how she actually enjoys being an older woman and like feels like she can
00:42:27
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speak her mind more freely and like it's a very unusual protagonist especially in animated films we don't usually follow. I just think that she could have gotten there herself without the help of him. Without oh sorry when I say him I meant Miyazaki like the creator when he wrote the character sorry not how. I thought it was all based off of Japanese children's fairies tales
00:42:52
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This one was based off of that one's not based off of a book. Yeah. And but he changed a lot of it. Like he added all the war stuff. But like what I love about it is that like she's an old woman, like basically through the whole movie. And like I don't feel like we see that in animated films.
00:43:09
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We don't usually see like an old lady protagonist, and she like manages to get this young, attractive man to like fall in love with her. And there's like actually three older women, like all of the main characters other than like Howl or there's like the Witch of the Waste and then the Madam. And the Witch of the Waste is the one who curses her, but then she also is an old lady by the end of it.
00:43:36
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Spirited Away also has two old ladies. Yeah. But the main character is a little girl. Uh-huh. And she has to solve her problems all by herself and accept change while also saving her parents and she's a little problem solver. You guys really know the plot of these movies, huh? Am I right, Kara? I've said like 10 words this whole podcast.
00:44:04
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Yeah, also the part where No Face eats the cake at the nice witch's house. Satisfy. One of my favorite non-speaking characters ever is from Howl's Moving Castle. It's the turnip head scarecrow. It's like a sentient scarecrow. And he basically helps Sophie the whole time. And he's like a better No Face.
00:44:31
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in my opinion. And then at the end, it turns out that he was the missing prince from the enemy kingdom and only true love's kiss could save him. And like, so if he gives him a kiss on the cheek when he's a scarecrow and then he turns into the prince, but then he's like, Oh, like this is so awkward because only true love's kiss could get me out of this, but you're clearly into howl. And then he just ups and leaves and he's like, uh, you know, I can, can tell when I'm beat. Plus, uh, you kissed me and I awoke and, uh,
00:45:00
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This is now I can have any pick I want our total contact. It's easy to leave. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Just dip. Just dip. Just dip. One last thing about it. How's Moving Castle lost the best animated feature award at the academies to Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Werer Rabbit. Are you fucking with me? I think that's OK. Really?
00:45:29
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It's a solid movie. That is shocking. Is it? That movie? Better than The Hall? It's funnier. Or you value him. That's all we care about? How funny? Sometimes all you care about is the laughs. We do in a comedy podcast. Anything else you want to say about Spirited Away before we move on?
00:45:52
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No, I think they're both great. I like that and I like yours and I just like mine a little bit better. All right, Mara. My number two is the Iron Giant. It's 1999, fully animated from start to finish. Congrats, you got one right.
00:46:16
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And anytime I watch this movie, I cry. I cry so hard. It is so sweet. It takes place after the Cold War and something falls to the earth and this little child goes out and he finds it.
00:46:34
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He finds the giant that felt Earth and he they're like not friends at first But then the kid goes back and like the friends the giant and they have this cute little friendship and then Cold War crisis. So then there's this
00:46:50
Speaker
bomb that comes in at the end and the giant flies up and takes the bomb away and the kid just thinks this giant's dead but the movie, spoiler, the movie ends with him finding a screw and like is moving because the giant put himself back together um it's just... You missed like a huge plot point of this movie. One second.
00:47:16
Speaker
I've never seen it, so I'd like to know. It's a really great movie. It was also on my short list. What's the plot point I missed? Well, so he's a killing machine, and when you fell to Earth, he has a dent in his head that makes it so he's not a killing machine. And the US government is out to find him, so they're evading the government in the whole movie. Oh my gosh. Correct. I did forget that.
00:47:41
Speaker
There's this really hot artist in the movie. He's like a welding sculpture guy. Oh, yeah, he is a hottie. And he's like anti government and helps the kid. Yeah, he does. He helps the kid like hide the giant from the government officials that the robot does turn into a killing machine, like towards the kid. And the kid is like, no, it's me. And it's like, oh,
00:48:09
Speaker
The whole point is that you can change, right? That you're not just your nature or whatever. It's a really great movie. It is. I'm getting shivers thinking about it. It's wonderful. I recommend. Great choice. Thank you. Love it. Plus one for Mara just for the choice. I was kind of wrong about the howl. Howl is just interfering with the war. Okay. Yeah, bitch.
00:48:38
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He's a crying, whiny little baby who's not doing his job.
00:48:43
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You want him to kill people? Thank you for fact checking. Nice. Stand corrected. I find him dramatic, but not whiny. Like I think he is. Then you don't remember the movie, right? Because there's this whole scene where like he comes and he's all slicked in oil and his hair turns black and he's such a whiny fucking baby. He's sick and Sophie has to nurse him back to health because she's the woman and he's sick and he's a little fucking baby.
00:49:10
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I really liked the movie. I'm... Damn. That's all I gotta say about the Iron Giant. Mackenzie might know, but...
00:49:21
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Mara, I wonder if you know, do you know who voices the Iron Giant? Vin Diesel. Oh, did you look it up? Well, because I got reamed on the first one for not, quote, knowing the plot. And then I forgot a huge plot point again. I was like, I had better skim through this. And his face popped up. Wow.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was his intro to being Groot. I just recognized him by his bald ass head. That's a really good point, Mackenzie. Yeah, he loves to be a non-speaking character and get paid money. It did flop. The Iron Giant didn't do as well at box office as they were hoped at. That's ridiculous. It's a great movie. Kara. Kara. All right. I know I'm about to get some flack. I did think this through. This is not a last minute choice.
Innovative Animation and Personal Favorites
00:50:12
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OK.
00:50:13
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It's Moana. Oh no, it's in Kanto. Wow. Okay. I already want to just the Moana and Kanto mix up there makes me want to itch to give a negative point, but okay. Yes. In Kanto. It's in Kanto. I thought Moana because I was about to bring up Lin-Manuel Miranda and I was about to say like,
00:50:34
Speaker
He does such a great job with all songs. I'm obsessed with Hamilton. I fucking love it. I like the story. I think Disney's finally getting away from the fucking woman finding man, making her happy crap. And I like that it's not set in America. I like that there's a unique background story. I love movies with background stories where it's like, you know why they're in that situation to begin with.
00:51:01
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I think I really appreciate that she brings everybody together at the end. I just think it's awesome.
00:51:07
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Yeah, and she faces her generational trauma. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. Yeah, it's beautiful. And then she gets the grandma. I think what the cool part is, is that she gets the grandma to also like, you know, a roundabout way, get her to admit that she was wrong too. And she was able to admit that she was wrong. Unsurprisingly, I loved the oldest sister song. Yeah, that's a great song. Being strong. Yeah. Yeah. That song makes me cry.
00:51:32
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Yeah, so each of the God and then they do such a good job just developing each of the individual characters. And it's just it's a pretty short movie overall. But each person has their own like personality and quirks and desires and fears. And they played they do such a good job of explaining them. And the songs are all beautiful. I just start to finish. Also, the first time I saw this movie was at your birthday, Mara.
00:51:54
Speaker
Oh, my God. Oh, right. Yeah. Wow. We did put it on because Savina is obsessed and is still obsessed. And I was too. Unsurprising. It's a great movie. I don't know why you thought you'd get flack for this one. I was just trying to. Cover my bases. Sometimes I don't think things think the list through all the way, you know, so I was just letting you know I did.
00:52:22
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I feel that. It's a solid recent Disney choice.
00:52:25
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I agree. Also, you are right. They did do a really good job of telling a story and making me invested in those characters, even though they all get one song each. I was just telling McKinsey how musicals are the most inefficient way to tell a story, but I feel like they did a good job in that one. I think Lin is a fucking god when it comes to musicals. I would watch anything that he... I love him. I think he's amazing.
00:52:54
Speaker
And that is the point of a story, Mara, as we all know, is just to get there as efficiently as possible. When you're telling me the same sentence over and over again, yeah, I would like you to speed it up. Well, let's be efficient and go talk about our sponsors.
00:53:23
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Is that a burp? No. Oh. I don't know what it was. Our number three sponsor this week is Mackenzie, who does our podcast art. Thank you for all your beautiful work. Check out her Instagram. Oh, Instagram is at Mackenzie. M-A-C-A-T-Z-I-E. That's so cute.
00:53:50
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Thank you. Awesome. And our our second sponsor is Grayson. We're without him today, but he and it did take about half hour to go through technical difficulties without him. We miss you. Come back soon. What a coward for not wanting to be in the same call as me. Yeah, read into it.
00:54:15
Speaker
And our number one sponsor this week is just Disney. I think maybe the Disney Renaissance. Because I think it's Disney Renaissance. It's one of the two points, Marianne. What? What do you think the top sponsor should be? Cats. No, computers. It has to be something.
00:54:42
Speaker
That gives us animators, animated films, animators. Okay. Our overworked, underpaid. Actually, I'll say this sponsor this week, the over 300 animation artists that made my number one
00:54:59
Speaker
There we go. Fucking writers. Support the writer strike, baby. Yeah, do it. Fuck Disney as a corporation. What are you talking about? Mackenzie, what's your number one top animated film? Listen. Whoa. Sorry. I got too excited. When you get excited, you beat up your mic setup. I'm a hand talker.
00:55:29
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My number one choice is a little, maybe a little contentious. I doubt any of you know it. It's not technically a movie. What the fuck? It is a mini series from Cartoon Network, but it's 10, 10 minute episodes. So movie length, right? Is that movie length an hour?
00:55:54
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's an hour and a half. A hundred minutes and an hour, right? Okay. Okay. So it's hour length, but it's a series. Yeah. It's 10, 10 minute episodes, right? Okay. On the same page. Yeah. It's over the garden wall. It's a wonderful series. It takes place in the fall. It's about a two brothers who are in a mystical wood.
00:56:24
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Um, and they are trying to get home. They're lost. Um, while not getting captured by the beast. Um, it's, it's a great story about coming together and like it reckons with like death. Um, Oh, is this an adult series or a child series? It's on Cartoon Network. It looks cute. It's, it's really excellent. Um, 10 out of 10.
00:56:52
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pizzas. I watch it every year without fail. Um, it's perfection. This is called over the hedge or the edge. Over the garden wall. Over the garden wall. Over the edge is another, another anime and movie, but, um, has a great soundtrack just, um, overall.
00:57:19
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Really, really wonderful little series. All right, negative one, because I can't fight you on it, because I've never heard of it. So negative one for my own ignorance, I guess. No, yeah, negative to you. I haven't known any of the movies anybody's talked about that doesn't mean anything about you. So does that mean that you get like negative six, Carol? Yeah, I should get a negative. That's on me. I think a negative one could be said here for the fact that it's not film, but we could allow it. That's fine, because I just told you.
00:57:47
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I defended my choice before I told you my choice. But is it a film structure? I just told you it's a miniseries. Oh, good cue. Is it is it a film structure? Was it a film broken art or? Yeah, it has a it has a full plot through. OK, with no like B's and C's plots, I don't know how the structure is.
00:58:14
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It absolutely has subplots. To any of Marion's friends listening. I didn't say shit just now. We'll just bleep it out. Yeah, it's great. I highly recommend in the fall, especially October. Go for it. Watch it. It's on Hulu, definitely. I do. I have heard of this because you've told me to watch it before. I have recommended it to you like 17 times.
00:58:40
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Yeah, so really actually minus one to you because you could have known what this was about and you you didn't do your friendship duty. Yeah. Also in nice little bite sized pieces. It is. It would be good for me. You guys, we could watch it together this fall. Yeah. Yeah. We can definitely do that. I would love it.
00:59:04
Speaker
make apple cider. It's got a night in this movie over the garden wall. I didn't just have to look at it again. It has a 98% audience fucking excellent. It is so good. And it's so silly and cute.
00:59:21
Speaker
But still dark and weird. It does have music, Mara, so. Well, 10 minutes. I could live. But the music isn't necessarily telling a story for the plot. OK. Yeah. It's just a part of what's happening. I'm so sad none of you have seen it. It's really disappointing. Thank you for introducing it in advance. I'm very excited.
00:59:47
Speaker
Yeah, we can carve pumpkins and watch it. Mary Ann, you'll just have to fly in, I guess. Yeah. Uh, Mara? My number one.
00:59:58
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is Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. Hell yeah. The first movie, not the second one? Yeah, the first one. She hasn't seen the second one. I haven't seen the second one yet. Fake fan. I know. Yikes. Don't expose me like that. I was out of town the weekend you went. This film is the first Spider-Man movie I've watched and been like, huh, Spider-Man is kind of cool.
01:00:27
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It was also revolutionary for the animation industry. Is this the one where there was like a bunch of Spider-Mans? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I did like that one. Miles Morales is the Spider-Man instead of Peter Parker. It's really great. Yeah. It was funny. It made me care. It was like heartwarming. It was funny. Has a banging soundtrack.
01:00:53
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It does have a really good soundtrack. And I do listen to that soundtrack occasionally while I'm working out. So that and the Black Panther soundtrack. But this movie, I still think about it occasionally, just randomly. It'll still pop into my head. And so this one's sticking with me. It's a very exciting movie. It's really funny, too. The second one's really funny. The second one is really good. Yeah.
01:01:21
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My number one is The Emperor's New Groove 2000. I think this movie is pretty much perfect and it's super underrated. It's like got some of the most unhinged humor that I've ever seen in a children's movie. And it's not a musical, though it was going to be a musical. I have more information on that in a second.
01:01:50
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And it's, I mean, it's got John Goodman in it, David Spade. And I can't remember Isma's name, but she's like great. Yes. Yeah. And she's so good at being Isma. It's got like one of my favorite villains ever. And one of the best like the origin of the himbo, which is Kronk, her psychic. I quote that movie like once a week, and it's such a dumb quote, too.
01:02:17
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Because there's the part where they're preparing to have Cusco for dinner, right? Her and Kronk, and he's making spinach puffs. Yes. And they haven't gotten there, but she goes, it's dinner time. And I say it all the fucking time. Oh my god.
01:02:36
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Barely funny, but I just love it. Yeah. So here's some stuff about this movie because I read this article a ways back and it was fascinating. So Emperor's New Groove went through development hell. It was not in a good space. Oh yeah. Yeah. It was originally supposed to be called Kingdom of the Sun and it was based off of actual
01:02:58
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like an actual Incan creation story of the world. Owen Wilson was going to be the sidekick. David Spade was still going to be the emperor. They asked Sting to compose the musical numbers.
01:03:13
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They pitched it to him like, oh, Elton John, his success with Lion King. And Sting was like, yeah, I'll do that as long as my wife can do a documentary on a behind the scenes. And I said yes to that, which is why there's so much information about this process that we don't really have for other movies.
01:03:34
Speaker
So it was having trouble because they were like, oh, the plot is too serious. It's too complicated. And this was right after Pocahontas actually and Hunchback of Notre Dame had done bad at the box office like they had underperformed. And so they were very honest and bad. Yeah, that was such a surprising fact to me. That's wild. I mean, no.
01:03:53
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Notre Dame makes sense. Yeah. That movie is weird. Yes. Yeah. And so they like Disney was worried about the direction Emperor's new group was going. They were one and a half years from release and they only had 25% of the movie animated. That's not good. Oh my God. Very bad. And they had already spent $25 million. So this is like very bad. And so what they decided is there were two directors
01:04:22
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who couldn't agree on the direction of the film. So the producers were like, we're splitting you up and we're just going to have like a bake off where you like create with your team. You decide like how the movie is supposed to go. And so they picked like this current version. And Kuzco's original name was Manko, but they changed it because that's a Japanese curse word for cunt.
01:04:48
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when they found that out, they're like, you should probably change this. I feel like Coos goes so much better. It is so upsetting to me when I hear about like the lack of planning and indecision in the film industry, like just casually spending millions and millions and millions of dollars with like no pre-production or plan. Like.
01:05:13
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Oh, that happens in every industry because it is just wild. They throw out these huge numbers and you're just like, did you mean to say that number? Is that the number that's really really happening? Yeah, it's like the whole point is that you will have an end product and you know what that product will be. Maybe sometimes it doesn't go anywhere.
01:05:40
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Oh, I see what you're saying. Quit defending the film industry, Mara. No, I hate it. It's weird gross amounts of money. Not bad. Yeah, especially $25 million for 25%. That's 1%.
01:05:55
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for one million. It's not good. It's not good. Yeah. So they finally like in 1999, they employed 300 artists to get moving because it was going to get released the next year. So they had to like really like fast track it. That's why the humor is the way it is. At least that's what the creators say is because like they literally had like no time to come up with this movie and they're like, Oh, what if this happens? And then what if that happens and nothing was getting nixed at that point?
01:06:24
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And so that's why there's all those like weird jokes in there. They can have a scene where like, you know, Kuzco dresses up as Pacha's wife or whatever. So I love that movie. It's I think it's like super underrated. It's a good movie. It was also on my shortlist. How long is your shortlist? Long. Listen, it was really difficult for me to pare down my list.
01:06:52
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I'll read everything I wrote down if you want. She's after Kara with our new system. I'll listen to it later. I'll listen to your full list. Marion, I knew you were going to say this because when I came to visit at one point, I can't remember who was there, but we all sat on the couch and we watched this movie and I was like dragging my feet and you were like, shut the fuck up, watch the movie. And I was obsessed and it was amazing. This was like last year. I don't think I'd ever seen it before. It was perfect. That's crazy. Start to finish.
01:07:21
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Also quite sure, isn't it like an hour and 10 minutes or something? Marianne, do you know the movie she's talking about? Do you remember this? She's talking about Emperor's New Groove, right? Yeah. Oh, is that your top? Or you're still commenting on Marianne's? She's commenting. I'm commenting.
01:07:36
Speaker
Yeah, she's saying that she knew I was going to pick Emperor's new girl. I thought that you were saying that that was your favorite, Kara. Oh, I was confused. No, I knew it was going to be on her list and I tried to make sure I don't have what I'm what I know. There's nothing worse than when your bitch says what's on your list.
01:07:56
Speaker
Then when Mara starts spouting off her honorable mentions before you finish. Listen, I refuse to stick any slack about that because that has happened to me before where you list something that's on my list in your honorable mention. Throw is. She said slack instead of flack. It's fine. Okay. I just didn't want this to be a Polly Darden situation. If you don't want any slack, we won't give you any slack. We'll be harder. No.
01:08:20
Speaker
Okay, Carrie, what's your... My number one is probably not going to be a surprise. It's the movie Klaus. It's currently on Netflix. Oh my God, yes. I looked it up. It has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which I don't know if I've ever seen something that high. I cry every time. I love Christmas. I love how people grow. I love, oh, just the big, I just, I love everything about it and it's perfect. Interesting to choose a Christmas movie.
01:08:50
Speaker
I love Christmas. That is unsurprising for Kara. Yeah. We had a fight about when Christmas starts in our apartment when we live together. If I was allowed, it would be before Halloween, but I've paired it back to November 1st. I'm so fucked up. That is criminal. I love it. And you should go to jail. Straight to jail. I'm just spreading holiday cheer early. Oh, my God. That's like two months of holiday cheer. Yeah, it's fucking awesome. We're spreading.
01:09:19
Speaker
macabre and spookiness ma'am. Klaus is Klaus is absolutely amazing. It's like I think it's one of my new favorite Christmas movies since it's come out. I've watched it every year. Yeah. So like what three times? It came out in 2019. Yeah, more than that. We saw it in 2019. Yeah, we watched it. We watched it together at my first L.A. apartment.
01:09:46
Speaker
in that Christmas that my mom was totally fine with me not being there for. Yeah, that was the Grand Canyon one, right? Yeah. I do like how in class it's just slightly different. I feel like it's still a very classic Christmas story film or Santa Claus origin story, but I do feel like
01:10:11
Speaker
They put enough of a twist on it. It's kind of it starts off like a group like the main character kind of starts off as like a bumbling, like a conceited narcissist. Yeah. Yeah. So that makes sense. So it's amazing. Yeah. Got that vibe. It's very fresh. I think like it was very refreshing Christmas movie. I tried to show it to Matt. He fell asleep during it. Well, I divorce.
01:10:39
Speaker
get married, then divorce him. I watched it on a date with somebody and he did let me get all the way through it. He didn't. Sorry. Wait. Fuck. Um, one of two things either happened. We watched this movie and then we put on a different movie and made out or we watched a different movie and then we put on this movie and then we started making out and I was like, we couldn't have made out in the first film. Uh, cause this, it did happen the second way.
01:11:09
Speaker
And I was like, all right, I'll watch this by myself later. Once I had someone try to make out with me while we were watching The Road. What is that? Bad make out movie. It's fucking depressing. It's like about the apocalypse, basically. It's really sad. Viggo Morrison. Really, really bad time. I cried while we were kissing. Oh, you were kissing? Oh, my god. Oh, god. I'm picturing, like, I am legend in the back of my head. But worse. Worse. OK.
01:11:40
Speaker
Yeah, a guy tried to hook up with me during the mummy and you can imagine how that went. I was pretty offended. I failed one guy's movie test. He made me watch Harold and Kumar. And I tried to make out with him a guy movie to try to show a girl like.
01:11:59
Speaker
What a loser. I'm glad you failed. The first movie test can really say a lot. It is really important. I guess Cara passed Grayson's movie test with Aladdin. No, Grayson passed Cara? I don't even know. How did Aladdin, Mary and I come home one night, and Cara and Grayson are on their third day. And we come home to Cara and Grayson watching Aladdin. At like 10 PM, which Cara would never do. And it was...
01:12:25
Speaker
So unlike Cara, couldn't believe it. I don't remember how it happened. I'm sure it was one of those situations that got brought up and we're on a third date. And so I was like, my house is just down the street. We should go watch the movie. I'm sure it was just as simple as that.
01:12:40
Speaker
like you were trying to be like hot about it? I hope not. No, we came home and they were just sitting next to each other. The way you said it sounded like one thing will lead to another.
01:12:56
Speaker
Not when your roommates come home and sing along with the VHS. I think that was the real test. You brought him back. He's not here to correct any of this. You brought him back and then he saw the VHSs and said, oh, Aladdin. And then you guys put it on. I don't think you would ever volunteer that man. I have no idea. Yeah.
01:13:18
Speaker
All right. I think we can just call Mackenzie the winner this week. I was about to give her a point for how thoughtful she was. So yes. For the shortlist, the longlist, knowing all the movies. This is so romantic, you guys. Congratulations. Yeah, when I come to visit. That was lovely. Should we French? I mean, I'm married, Mary.
01:13:46
Speaker
I mean, if that's going to stop you, I guess.
Podcast Wrap-Up and Social Connections
01:13:49
Speaker
Okay. What's a little French in between friends? Damn, you're right. He'll understand. All right. This has been my top everything. Thank you so much for listening. Uh, contact us at, at my top everything or email us at my top everything podcast at gmail.com. We love getting emails. Anything else?
01:14:16
Speaker
I'm Cara. You can find me on Instagram again. Yeah. At mccatsy. It'll be in the show notes, right? Yes, it will. Yes. Love it. All right. I'm Marion. That's for having me. I had a really good time. Let me interrupt you again, please. It's hard. It's hard not to interrupt people, actually. Especially with four. Four is hard. Yeah. I'm Marion. I'm Cara. And I'm Mara. I'm Mackenzie. This has been My Top Everything. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.
01:14:47
Speaker
That's enough. Oh, you did it. You got the music. Good job. I got the music. I got the little thingy. I'm basically Grayson. Grayson. I'm your boyfriend now. I'll be back soon, baby. What's a little Frenching? Yeah, exactly. Let's go. Let's do it. Yeah. Can you take Vandy out for me? That'd be real nice. No. No, she has to shit. I'm going to be like Grayson and not take her out.
01:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, I you have my little facts. I only felt better because Cara didn't